Topic: Cut Glass Bowl Could it be John Walsh Walsh

[mhgcgolfclub]

Cut glass bowl found at a car boot last Summer.

Had no luck finding a maker.

Looking through the book "The Glass Of John Walsh Walsh by Eric Reynolds" plate 47 page 22 there is a 2 piece cut glass bowl. Although the picture is small the pattern looks very similar to my bowl.
My bowl is not signed or marked.

Just a thought that Walsh may be a possibility.

Roy

[flying free]

The Walsh mark as you might know, can be extremely difficult to spot.
Try holding it under strong light and then looking round the base edge very carefully.  There might be one there.  They are almost impossible to spot - and even if you know it's there, very difficult to find again once you've looked away and looked back.  That difficult.

I've got the book and will have a double check for you later.

m

[Paul S.]

sorry Roy  -  plates in my copy don't go that high, and nothing like that on my page 22   ??      My copy is the 1999 version - was the book reprinted do you know?

[flying free]

I can see what you mean but don't lots of cut glass makers use a diamond cut or square cut?

The palm design on the bowl in the book isn't on your plate, but that wouldn't preclude the square cut being the same of course.

I don't know - is this square grid cut something peculiar to only Walsh?

I would love if the Walsh book had a pattern page per page.  But you need a magnifying reader in large to place over each page to be able to see anything in the patterns. It's so difficult to read but a great book.
m

[mhgcgolfclub]

Sorry Paul may be my mistake. I should of said fig.47 page 22, same book I think 1999.

m I still think very similar , I had a very close look at bowl and no mark so it will stay as no ID for time being.

Thanks Roy

[Paul S.]

thanks Roy  -  would agree with m and think that your cut pattern is too universal to feel comfortable saying Walsh, and you are missing the fan split cutting too.

sorry to say it, but I don't see this square grid pattern as being Walsh  -  if you look at their cut designs incorporating relief diamonds and table diamonds, they appear to be cut to produce a pattern running at 45 degrees, and could be wrong but not sure that they did cross hatching on the diamonds, which I think I'm seeing on yours  -  is that right?

In my experience, and aside from drinking glasses, Walsh cut bowls and similar turn up infrequently - perhaps they were pricey pieces to buy in the first place.

Reynolds book can be a trial at times, I agree, but in the absence of anything else on the subject I guess we have to live with it  -  what makes me chuckle is the picture on page 26 -   fig. 61  - I always need to look twice to remind me which one is Elizabeth